Kiosk / Hans Magnus Enzensberger ; translated by Michael Hamburger and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus.

Contributor:

Hamburger, Michael.

Standardized Title:

Kiosk. English

Language:

English

German

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvii, 88 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Sheep Meadow Press, [1999]

Summary:

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. The Sheep Meadow Press is proud to publish Enzensberger's Selected Poems, drawn from six volumes of his work, and Kiosk, his most recent book. This is a major literary event.

Come of age after the Third Reich, Enzensberger builds his poetry upon titanic German wreckage and tradition. Always historical and provocative, his humanity dares to sport a sublime malice toward all and charity for few. His revelations have something in common with certain post-Renaissance painters, whose Madonnas are both spiritual and lascivious. Lawrence Joseph writes, "Enzensberger, more than any poet of his generation anywhere in the world, comes before the public with his own precepts, codes and taboos ... Whose work has delved into and captured the thought of our time to the extent that Enzensberger's has?"

Contents:

Translator's Disappearing Act / Michael Hamburger xv

Historical Patchwork

Kiosk 3

The War, like 4

Privileged Instructions 5

The Rich 6

Economic Life 7

The Tin Plate 8

An Observation on Shifts in Functional Elites 9

Old Europe 10

Audiosignal of April 14th 1912 11

In Memory of Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916) 12

Autumn 1944 14

Early Writings 15

Ode to Stupidity 16

Nice Sunday 17

Flight of Ideas (I) 18

Asphodels 20

Trek 21

Mixed Feelings

Taking Russian Leave 25

His Father's Ghost 26

In Praise of Violence 27

Comrade Bartleby 28

Bird's Eye View 30

A Sort of Revelation 31

On the Algebra of Feelings 32

Polaroid, Dissolving 34

Sit-down Strike 35

Leaving Aside 36

Minimal Programme 37

A Few Idle Lines 38

Rush-hour Traffic 39

Disappointed 40

Et Ego 41

Flight of Ideas (II) 42

Persuasive Talk 44

New Man 45

Diversions Under the Cranium

Self-demolishing Speech Act 49

Balancing Act 50

Bifurcations 51

Neuronic Nexus 52

Under the Skin 53

What the Doctors Say 54

Norwegian Timber 55

More About a Tree 56

Taxonomy 57

On the Problem of Reincarnation 58

Flight of Ideas (III) 60

A 62

Humble-bee, Bumble-bee 64

The Renaissance Specialist 65

Congratulation to a Lady Called Elizabeth 66

Old Medium 67

Paolo di Dono, known as Uccello 68

A Backward Glance at Painting 69

For Karajan and Others 70

In Suspense

Presumption of Innocence 73

Arterial Road 74

Inconspicuous Miracle 75

An Encounter of the Other Kind 76

The Somnambulist Ear 77

Was There Something 78

Clinical Meditation 79

Grace 80

The Visit 81

Osiris 82

A Reproach 83

Addressee Unknown

Retour a l'expediteur 84

Nimbus 85

Flight of Ideas (IV) 86

Of Life After Death 87

The Entombment 88.

ISBN:

1878818724

OCLC:

41026435